Short project info

- Mobile Ad-hoc Networks represent the next emerging Peer-to-peer technology
- The OPEN Network project aims to bring MANETs into every-day life of broad masses
- Enables the building of autoconfigured, self-managed, self-protecting, self-optimizing multi-hop Ad-hoc WiFi networks using the existing technology and devices
- Motivates to join by enabling completely new usage scenarios, as for example multi-hop P2P VoIP (multi-hop push-to-talk on WiFi) without any server, account or configuration, multi-platform, directly from your mobile phone or any other device
- It aims to enable fast, reliable and no-configuration multi-platform multi-hop wireless networking starting from SOHO enviroment up to citiwide MANETs
- Supports all Windows, Linux, BSD, MAC devices, almost all SOHO routers, Windows CE/Mobile devices, and even the iPhone or Android platform devices like the G1 (our own port)
- Easy instalation and no configuration required
- Optimizes the topology so that maximum of data flows thru nodes without battery concerns and only if no other option exists thru battery powered nodes
- Reduces the power consumption on battery powered nodes by further optimization strategies as for example enabling higher OSI layers only when the given SSID is detected on L1
- Builds upon the Live and Let Live strategy awarded with the strategy award on the MANIAC Challenge 2007, Washington DC
- The goal is to minimize all negative side-effects to a level that the users won't be able to find a reason not to use this technology
- Builds upon the success of other open-source community MESH/MANET projects as: www.freifunk.net , the FON project and simmilar
- Uses the higly optimized OLSR-NG routing protocol
- Open-source and community based, uses community to test and gather statistical data, by its scope (device/platforms supported) it can be clasified as one of the biggest wireless experiments ever
- Project in in Alpha stage - portal site still under construction
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Some interesting links:

OLSR-NG ported to Android (G1): http://www.olsr.org/?q=node/30

MANIAC Challenge 09 presentation slides: http://stargate.cnl.tuke.sk/~klimek/maniac_09/Live%20and%20let%20live%20...

MANIAC Challenge 07 presentation slides: http://stargate.cnl.tuke.sk/~klimek/the_maniac_challenge/presentation_rc...

MANIAC Challenge 07 paper: http://www.maniacchallenge.org/tukosice%20Strategy.pdf

SCYR 08 paper: http://s.cnl.tuke.sk/~klimek/MANIAC_scyr_v2.pdf

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This is a very live project with a lot of work in progress, we will try to update this page as much as possible but it can happen that it wont be always 100 perc. actual. In case of any questions dont hasitate and contact me at my e-mail address klimek(at)cnl.tuke.sk